US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Aircraft nacelle equipped with at least one thrust reversal device comprising at least one longitudinal deflector, aircraft comprising at least one propulsion unit having such a nacelle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,042, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft nacelle equipped with at least one thrust reversal device comprising at least one longitudinal deflector, aircraft comprising at least one propulsion unit having such a nacelle" was invented by Frederic Chelin (Toulouse, France), Christophe Bourdeau (Toulouse, France) and Olivier Scholz (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft nacelle equipped with a thrust reversal device which comprises: at least one deflection system configured to deflect an air stream channeled in the nacelle toward a lateral opening of the nacelle, in ...